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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Paul Williams

Cristiano Ronaldo, Snoop Dogg and Asia’s glamour club – the second coming of Alistair Edwards

Alistair Edwards with Cristiano Ronaldo in 2016 during the Portuguese star’s days at Juventus.
Alistair Edwards with Cristiano Ronaldo in 2016 during the Portuguese star’s days at Juventus. Photograph: Alistair Edwards

“I’m sitting in the box, [Cristiano] Ronaldo’s family’s box, next to Georgina, his wife, watching the game,” says Alistair Edwards. “And then after the game Ronaldo comes in and he invites us to his house, so you go to his house. So it’s in those times I think, ‘yeah, life has been pretty good’.”

That would seem an understatement, especially in the context of the Australian coach’s inglorious exit from Perth Glory in 2013. And in the past few years, life has indeed been pretty good.

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